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Re:Python bytecode is heavily trusted by CPython by raverbashing on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @08:28AM (#10424941)
Well

"I wouldn't be surprised if hand-generating crazy instruction sequences could do things like crash CPython"

To me is the same as

"I wouldn't be surprised if hand-generating crazy instruction sequences could do things like crash an ELF executable"

Or, what happens if you feed bad code to a JVM?

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Re:Python bytecode is heavily trusted by CPython by pjmlp on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @09:09AM (#10425132)
> Or, what happens if you feed bad code to a JVM?

Both the JVM and CLR have a verifier.

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Re:Python bytecode is heavily trusted by CPython by hobarrera on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @07:05PM (#10429450)
That doesn't make them uncrashable.
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Re:Python bytecode is heavily trusted by CPython by pjmlp on Thursday October 22, 2015 @03:54AM (#10430933)
It makes them resistant to stupid bytecode sequences that aren't supposed to happen.
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